Other Names:  Blue Rose

Group/Class:  Miniature Rose

Description:

Outstanding cool mauve, ruffled blooms with a darker center, set on dense, blue-green foliage; great for smaller garden areas and containers

Ornamental Features

Lavender Crystal Rose features showy lavender flowers at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has bluish-green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Lavender Crystal Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Lavender Crystal Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Lavender Crystal Rose will grow to be about 20 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.